Kind of a fun story, but I don’t know what subforum to write it in.
I have a lucrative retirement business that is enjoying growth. A good thing, but eats into my enjoyable retirement activities, fishing being in the list. I have a ‘99 Ranger that was well equipped, well stored and in great shape when I bought it at the beginning of COVID. I put a Ghost and TI2’s on it then and last year upgraded to LIVE’s and an AT2. At the time I put in a lithium battery used exclusively for the new Lowrance gear.
My grandson loves to fish with me even though he knows little about fishing. He was home from college for the weekend and wanted to fish. I got the boat ready including plugging in the charger for the crank battery and the trolling motor batteries. Before the LIVE’s the gadgets ran off the crank battery, so my habit was to plug in the one charger that did it all.
When I got the boat in the water and when the LIVE’s wouldn’t start up I realized that I had not charged the Lithium battery. When I bought the boat it had perfectly operable old Lowrance flashers, one at the console and one up front. The one up front had its transducer removed when the Ghost went in, but the rear one still works great, I told Connor(my Grandson) that he was about to learn a dead language.
I have waypoints of brush piles and such that I have pinpointed myself, as well as many from my buddies, but no GPS so they were useless. I knew generally where there were some brush piles that have been very productive so I explained how it worked and staying on the trolling motor, had him reading the flasher. With explanation and moving around we found a brush pile and even saw a few flashes that were probably fish. We caught a couple of Crappie off the brush pile and had some golden Opa/Grandson discussion.
Even without my wonderful gadgetry, we fished old school, he learned how to use antiquated equipment, and had a wonderful afternoon together.
So that’s my Lowrance story that covers old and new.